Day Z Dozen Blog Hop – ‘Night Flight’ Quilt by Cheryl Winslow

posted by Joan Hawley

Lazies, I absolutely adore today’s project. Cheryl Winslow of Starshine Quilting has such an eye for color, balance and scale. Cheryl shares her “Night Flight” quilt with us today. This is the eleventh of twelve daily features in the ‘Day Z Dozen’ blog hop.

Here’s Cheryl:
My favorite quilt is one you hand to a small child. They usually smile shyly and carefully look it over. They run off to spread it out and study the delightful colors. It always makes me smile.

When it comes time to make a quilt for a small child, lively colors are always a hit. It is amazing what they see in the fabric patterns.

Night Flight is a darker color way of it’s sister quilt Flutterby (shown at end of post). The flowers are cut into wings that become butterflies as shown here.

The darker colors of Night Flight will defiantly handle the dragging that happens. A well-loved quilt is one of the best complements for me as a quilter.

Night flight has two different 4-patch blocks. Look closely, the outer ring of 4″ blocks is actually the first of three borders. The next border is fun large dots, great for a counting lesson. The final border uses the LakeHouse mid sized daisies as scallops.

Below is a picture from the LakeHouse Dry Goods booth at the International Quilt Market in Houston this past October. You can see Night Flight at the far right, Daisy Star in the center and Ring Around The Flowers at the far left. The Bucket Tote sits on a shelf next to Night Flight. Pocket Parade tote sits in front of Daisy Star. Vibrant Spring ornaments can be seen at the far left in the foreground.

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About Cheryl:Aside from a long arm quilting business, and making the random quilt for a small child. I am a sample maker for Holly Holderman of LakeHouse fabrics. Once in a while I get the chance to do just a bit extra. Night Flight Will hopefully become a well loved quilt to some young child, made especially for them by a loving Grandma- or Grandpa!

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Your “Night Flight” quilt is a “dream.” The scallop border using the daisy print fabric is a perfect finish. I don’t think I realized how much I like seeing black in quilts until this DayZ Dozen hop. All of my favorites have combined the bright prints with lots of the daisies on black. Thanks for sharing your talent!

Thank you for sharing this delightful quilt. It is so much fun to look for the butterflys.
The Lakehouse display is beautiful. What a cheerful bunch of daisies! Thank you for posting this great picture.
Kathleen

This eye-catching quilt is fantastic! I’m loving the way the delicate daisy butterflies dance across this quilt and I LOVE the way you made the scalloped edge…letting those beautiful vibrant daisies do all the work! BRILLIANT! Oh yes, and I can’t forget that large dot border design idea 🙂 Perfect! Thankyou for sharing this wonderful quilt.

Oh this quilt is so cheery and delightful. You know how some quilts just talk to you? Well, this one is just Oo La La to me. I’ve always loved these fabrics – and I’ve been wanting to buy them. And now I will. So I can make my little two year old GD this quilt. She will LOVE this!!! Do you have a pattern available?

Joan, thank you for coordinating such a wonderful use and display of the Lakehouse fabrics. We carry many of the Lakehouse fabrics at the shop and have enjoyed seeing so many creative ideas for using them. It has been great fun to see the daily postings from the blog. I especially appreciate the listing of the links that you have compiled in your later messages so that we have easy access to them all. As always, you Lazy Girls sure have been busy helping us all enjoy the world of quilting.

Just love your quilt! I’m very partial to using black or other dark jewel tones in my quilts and so this one really speaks to me. Makes the LakeHouse colors POP-POP-POP!!!! And I love the big dots that you used in the narrow inner border. Once again…something so simple can make a real impact. Thanks so much for sharing with us all!

Cheryl, Your work is outstanding…love it…you don’t see a quilt with black in it very often. There’s a quilt and yarn shop here in Avon (Birds of a Feather). I’m sure the ladies there would love to see “Night Flight.

I am interested in the Day Z Duette Fabric by Holly Holderman for Lakehouse #LH06007 and I’m wondering if it comes in flannel, the cost, where it will be shipped from, etc. I look forward to your response.

I know Lola Rose has a wonderful quilt, she is a likey baby, The quilts I am looking at are all so wonderful when do you sleep. Send me some fabrics so I can see what I cand do. I hope the Jean is in me,
Sister Maryann

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As Lazy Girl, Joan Hawley always finds the easy and fun way to a successful project. A self-described geek and armchair engineer, Joan loves creating new twists and techniques for sewing and quilting. Joan is a renowned author, teacher and popular blogger. In addition to her successful pattern line, she designs notions for Clover Needlecraft and developed her Sew Lazy line of interfacing. Additionally, Joan is passionate for purses and poodles, loves the thrill of the written word, collecting books, thinking about gardening and occasionally burning a new recipe.